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moth? - Micromus posticus

Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
September 7, 2005
Size: about 10 mm

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moth? - Micromus posticus

moth? - Micromus posticus

Contributed by Bill DuPree on 9 September, 2005 - 4:15pm
Last updated 14 September, 2006 - 11:06am

Moved

Moved from Brown Lacewings.

… Mike Boone, 18 August, 2006 - 11:23am

#30985/30986 Identification

This is the brown lacewing Micromus posticus (Walker, 1853). For accounts of its biology see Bibliography of the Neuropterida (http://insects.tamu.edu/research/neuropterida/neur_bibliography/bibhome.html) reference numbers (r#) 4196 and 5621.

… John D. Oswald, 18 August, 2006 - 10:53am

Neuroptera.

This looks like a lacewing of some kind in the order Neuroptera.

… Eric R. Eaton, 9 September, 2005 - 4:44pm

Neuroptera

Thanks for the help, Eric. I'm still learning.

… Bill DuPree, 9 September, 2005 - 10:03pm

Neuroptera

Family is Hemerobiidae, Brown Lacewings

… Dennis Profant, 11 September, 2005 - 11:08pm

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